To:THE R.C.P.(B.) CENTRAL COMMITTEE

Written:Written on November 14, 1920Published:Published in full in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 52.

      First published in part in 1958 in the magazineVoprosy Istorii KPSSNo. 1 (Questions of CPSU History).

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      Moscow,Volume 45,

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Ihave accepted almost all of
N. K.’s[1]corrections and
suggest another one: an addition oncombining politicalandscientificeducational work. Zinoviev’s draft can be
adopted with these corrections and
additions.[2]

[1]NadezhdaKrupskaya.—Ed.

[2]Areference to the remarks and additions made by Nadezhda
Krupskaya to the draft letter of the R.C.P.(B.) Central
Committee, “On the Proletcults” (Proletarian Culture Organisations),
whose initial variant had been drawn up by G. Y. Zinoviev andfurther elaborated on the basis of remarks by the members of the
Central Committee and the People’s Commissariat for
Education. Krupskaya proposed the following fundamental addition
to the letter: “The Proletcult emergedbeforethe October
Revolution. It was proclaimed an ‘independent,’ workers’
organisation, unconnected with the Ministry of Public Education under
Kerensky. The October Revolution changed the prospect. The
Proletcults continued to remain ‘independent’, but now they
were ‘independent’ of the Soviet power.” The following was
also accepted in her wording: “Instead of helping proletarian
youth to engage in serious study and making its communist
approach to ail the aspects of life and art more profound, artists
and philosophers essentially remote from and hostile to
communism, but proclaiming themselves to be truly proletarian, hampered
the workers....” And further: “Far from wishing to constrict the
initiative of the working-class intelligentsia in the sphere of
creative art, the Central Committee wants to create for it a
healthier and more normal atmosphere and to enable it to leave its
mark on the whole of creative art” (Voprosy Istorii
KPSS—Questions of the C.P.S.U. History—1958, No. 1, p. 36). Nadezhda
Krupskaya also made various other minor corrections in the
draft letter.

Lenindirected and took a personal part in working out the
C.C. letter, an important Party document, based on the
instructions which he set out in the draft resolution, “On Proletarian
Culture” and in the “Draft Decision for the Plenum: of the C.C.,
R.C.P.(B.) on Proletcult” (see present edition, Vol. 31, pp. 316–17;
Vol. 42, p. 226). On December 1, 1920, the letter was published
inPravda.